“Nobody wants to have his property infested and ravaged by rodents. Aside from the nuisance of property damage, infectious diseases, like a rare lung infection called Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, are directly transmitted by rodents. As per CDC or Center for Disease Control, even people who are seen healthy are at risk of contracting HPS. Rodents also carry diseases like leptospirosis, lassa, fever and plague which are fatal if left untreated.

Confirmed deaths of two Californian campers, an unidentified 37-year-old man and a woman in her 40’s from Southern California, who stayed at the Yosemite National Park and contracted HPS was reported by Phil Gast of CNN.